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Comparing of old and new John Mayer albums

For this corpus idea, I wanted to compare the older John Mayer albums to the newer John Mayer albums. The first thing I did here was compare only the first and last album to see what kind of differences I could find here, especially in the popularity and the valence of the tracks. The next step was to make a scatterplot that easily shows these differences. I finally made this into an interactive scatterplot to be able to show more of the information and to show which song is which. However, this scatterplot would only show two of the total of seven albums. So, my next step was to include all of the albums and make good visuals to show as much information as possible of every album. The first visual is a boxplot. I made boxplots of every album and put them next to each other to be able to compare all of them. What I compared here is only the track popularity. Since this would not be enough information, I also made a scatterplot. This scatterplot would show the albums in different colors, the energy, the valence, and of course the track popularity. My goal here is to try and find out if the older or newer albums of John Mayer are more popular, and if so, why these would be more popular. With all of the information and the visuals, I hope to find an answer to these questions.

So, I will use boxplots and interactive scatterplots to try to find more information about the track popularity, the valence, the energy, the mode, and the loudness of John Mayer’s albums. With this information I hope to find an answer to whether the older or newer albums are more popular and why.

Most hits are on the album Continuum

These boxplots show the popularity of every John Mayer album. These boxplots show that the albums “Continuum” and “The Search for Everything” seem to contain the most popular tracks. However, it also shows that Continuum contains slightly more popular tracks than The Search for Everything, which is why, according to these boxplots, it can be said that Continuum is the most popular John Mayer album. This album is from the year 2006, which would mean that his older music is more popular than his newer music, however I do think that the success of this album does not have much to do with the oldness or newness, but more with the guitar skills in the tracks of this album.

The biggest outlier is the track “Your Body Is A Wonderland”

This interactive scatterplot clearly shows all of the albums in different colors. Because of the different colors it is easy to see which albums seem to be more popular and which album contains most outliers for example. In this scatterplot, the valence is shown on the x-axis and the track popularity is shown on the y-axis. The size of the dots in this scatterplot shows the energy. In this interactive scatterplot it can easily be seen that the biggest outlier (mostly in popularity) is the track “Your Body Is A Wonderland” of the album Room For Squares, which also is the oldest album in the scatterplot. The other three ouliers, however, are the tracks “Slow Dancing In A Burning Room”, “Gravity”, and “Waiting On the World to Change”, which are all on the album Continuum. Even though, these seem to be the most popular tracks, it does not show much about the valence or loudness for example. It seems that there is no real connection between the track popularity and the valence and/or energy.

Chromagram of Your Body Is A Wonderland

This shows a chromagram of the biggest oulier (with a track popularity of 76), Your Body Is A Wonderland.